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What caused Steve Jobs’s death?

In 2003 Jobs was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer, and the following year he announced that he had undergone surgery to remove a tumor. In 2009 Jobs received a liver transplant. In August 2011 he resigned as CEO of Apple, and two months later, at age 56, he died of complications from pancreatic cancer.